Bangladesh logs highest 153 daily Covid deaths

Bangladesh logs highest 153 daily Covid deaths

Bangladesh logged the highest daily Covid deaths of 153 people in the past 24 hours on Sunday amid the on-going 7-day restrictions on public movement imposed by the government to contain the viral disease.

The country for the eighth consecutive day had logged 100-plus daily deaths from Covid-19 since June 27.

Some 8,661 more people got infected with the viral disease in the timeline.

The latest figures take the overall death caused by the viral disease to 15,065 and the total number of infections to 944,917 while the daily test positivity rate is 28.99 per cent.

Among the deceased, 96 are male and 57 female patients.

A Directorate General of Health Services release confirmed the statistics.

New Age correspondents in different districts report that numbers of people are dying at the Covid units with the viral disease and symptoms.

A total of 92 patients died at the Covid units of hospitals in Rajshahi, Khulna, Satkhira, Kushtia, Mymensingh, Chattogram, Thakurgaon and Jashore in the past 24 hours till Sunday morning.

Of them, 55 were Covid-19 positive patients and the remaining 37 died with symptoms.

The stricter restrictions on public movement, however, could not stop many of the Dhaka residents from roaming around as they were taking it reluctantly.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 618 people at different spots till Sunday afternoon on charges of violating the ongoing restrictions, taking the total arrest to 2,112 for the past four days.